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Does Being Bilingual Make You Better At Math? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine if there is any relationship between being bilingual, defined as speaking your native language at home and another language in school, and your mathematical ability.
Elezi, Enxhi
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Mixing the stimulus list in bilingual lexical decision turns cognate facilitation effects into mirrored inhibition effects

open access: yes, 2020
To test the BIA+ and Multilink models’ accounts of how bilinguals process words with different degrees of cross-linguistic orthographic and semantic overlap, we conducted two experiments manipulating stimulus list composition.
Dijkstra, T.   +3 more
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What absent switch costs and mixing costs during bilingual language comprehension can tell us about language control. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Epub 2019 Mar 28.In the current study, we set out to investigate language control, which is the process that minimizes cross-language interference, during bilingual language comprehension. According to current theories of bilingual language comprehension,
Declerck, Mathieu   +4 more
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Working memory and second language development: A complex, dynamic future? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Working memory (WM) is inherently dynamic and complex, being a multi-faceted system that links storage and processing components; yet it is widely understood as internal.
Jackson, Daniel O.
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Participation for mental health service development in China: Conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Error analysis of expressive analogy task in Spanish-English bilingual school age children with and without specific language impairment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
textPurpose: The relational shift hypothesis (RSH) states that, as children age, the way in which they interpret analogies shifts from a focus on object similarities to relational aspects of objects.
Moreno, Beverly
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Community music, identity and belonging among Dutchies in Australia: Comparing assimilation to multiculturalism

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses variations in the experiences of Dutch identity and belonging to a music‐making group in the Dutch migrant community in Melbourne, Australia. It answers the research question “Which variations of ‘Dutch identity’ are there for the participants and how does music‐making relate to this?”. Feelings of identity and belonging
Karien Dekker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bilingualism

open access: yesLoquen, 2018
In most common definition a bilingual is a person who is able to speak and understand two languages. Most of us consider bilingualism as something good, an advantage. For one thing, knowledge of another language enables people to communicate with members
Ila Amalia
doaj   +2 more sources

Διγλωσσία και δίγλωσση εκπαίδευση: βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση

open access: yesSyn-Thèses
This paper probes into the different facets of bilingualism and bilingual education and attempts to answer the question of who is bilingual and what is his/ her proficiency in both languages. In bilingualism, there seems not to be ‘one kind of bilingual’.
Makrina Zafiri
doaj   +1 more source

Psychological and sociodemographic correlates of communicative anxiety in L2 and L3 production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper analyses foreign language anxiety in the French L2 and English L3 speech production of 100 Flemish students. The findings suggest that foreign language anxiety is not a stable personality trait among experienced language learners. The societal
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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